Useless Island
| Useless Island | ||
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| Waters | Gerlache Street | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 43 '3 " S , 62 ° 51' 56" W | |
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| length | 300 m | |
Useless Island ( English for useless island ) is a 300 m long, rocky island off the Danco coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Gerlache Strait , it is 100 m east of Useful Island and west of Rongé Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2017 based on the naming of the larger "sister island" to the west.
Web links
- Useless Island . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for the Antarctic Peninsula, the South Shetland and the South Orkney Islands (English)